How to Bring Customers to Your Restaurant

Running a restaurant can be stressful, but it doesn’t have to be. Thanks to the Internet, it’s easier than ever for restaurants to get their name out there and start building up their brand. Of course, brand awareness doesn’t mean much if you can’t also maintain your restaurant’s quality, which is why you need to keep that restaurant recruitment at its best. Getting help with that can free time for you to focus on the other important elements of your business too. With that in mind, here’s a couple of simple improvements that any restaurant can make to ensure that customers are always coming back for more.

Keep Things Clean

The most basic thing you should be doing to keep customers coming back is keeping your restaurant spotlessly clean. That includes the kitchen, even if guests don’t see it themselves. Basic cleaning is easy, but you should use commercial cleaning services regularly to do a deep clean for you. This will blast away grease, grime and bacteria that has built up that a quick wipe won’t solve. Remember, poor hygiene can get you shut down in an instant, so it’s worth your time and money to keep everything pristine. There should be no fabric stains, no sticky tables, no cobwebs or dust and certainly no mould, flies or stray hairs.

Improve the Decor

Although one of the most often overlooked components of a restaurant, especially for ones that have been around for a long time, the decor is nevertheless an important component of a restaurant. After all, no one wants to eat a place that’s in poor condition. If they can’t keep the restaurant in top condition, what does that say about the food? Luckily, there are plenty of simple ways to make a restaurant look cleaner and more enticing.

An outdoor restaurant furniture Canada supplier, such as Rodo, can help make your restaurant look more inviting with brightly colored umbrellas or tablecloths. Indoor restaurants can similarly make an effort to color the walls and tables appropriately.

Communicate With Your Audience

Unfortunately, simply having a website isn’t enough in this day and age. If you want your restaurant to get more popular, you’ll need to actively communicate with your potential customers. Blogging can be a great tool for establishing a dialogue and maintaining it, ensuring that your customers repeatedly check back to your website for more information. Of course, it’s just as important to regularly maintain your website as it is your restaurant. If you haven’t checked back on your website in several months, then that’s something you should seriously consider doing. Consumers typically go on the Internet to check out new places to eat. If your site doesn’t have any activity on it, then they might assume the restaurant isn’t even active anymore.

Although there are plenty of important things involved in the running and maintaining of a restaurant, perhaps the most important is remembering to be diligent. As long as you’re routinely keeping an eye on areas to improve, then there’s no doubt that you’ll see a marked improvement in your restaurant’s quality. Whether it’s by updating your physical location or your digital one, there’s always something that can be done to ensure that your brand is being displayed appropriately.

A New Fitness Regimen We Should All Have

Sometimes, there are things we know we should do but put off again and again.  We always have excuses. We have more urgent things to do. There are more important things that require our attention. I am so guilty of this! (Although I really have my hands full right now! Promise!)

One thing that I have been putting off was starting my journey to financial freedom. Last June (my goodness! That was months ago!), I received a financial journal from Avida Land.  I did browse through it when I first got it but never took time to really delve into it. I realize now I should have made time for it sooner!

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The journal includes very specific actions we can take on our path to financial freedom.  It starts with a guide on how to determine whether you are financially fit.  Once you have figured out where you are financially, you are then guided on how to make your own roadmap.  It also lists several investment options and advice on how to choose which one is most suitable for you.  As you go through the journal, you are encouraged to make a commitment to achieve your long-term financial plans.

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Taking the First Step

As with everything we do in life, it all begins with the first step we take.  In this road, our first step is to determine where our finances lie by creating a Cash Flow Statement and a Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Sounds daunting, right?! Good thing the Avida financial journal has made this easy by providing step-by-step instructions on how to make them.  What wasn’t so easy was finding out that we’re not in such a good state.

Thus, I now feel compelled to start a new fitness regimen – a financial fitness regimen!

 

What I Should Do!

The same way we discipline ourselves in the way we eat or exercise, we must also learn how to discipline ourselves financially.  This is my focus now.  We really don’t spend much on unnecessary material things and don’t splurge on expensive branded clothes and accessories, but we do spend a lot on food and leisure activities. Before I move forward to finding investment options, we must make sure we have enough to invest in them.  So, this is my  mantra now:  SPEND LESS THAN WHAT YOU EARN

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By cutting down on some unnecessary expenses and going back to our habit of setting aside a portion of our income, I think we could get back on track soon.

My Fitness Regimen

So far, here’s what I’m committing to do:

  1. Allot a portion of our income to savings. Set them aside right away!
  2. Eat out less often.
  3. Make a budget and stick to it!
  4. Do a weekly review of expenses.
  5. Find other sources of income. (business ideas anyone?)

With my new financial fitness regimen, who knows, maybe we could have more than enough for that dream house we’ve been pining for.

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Easy Ways for Moms to Make Money from Home

As a stay at home mom, you know that taking care of your little ones is a full-time job. However, it can sometimes be challenging to cover all of your expenses on one income. If you are looking for some extra cash, you don’t have to leave your baby and head back into the workforce. Instead, try out some of these ways to make money from home.

Offer Babysitting Services

You’re already spending time at home with your kids, so you might want to consider watching other children in your home, too. Some moms choose to open home day cares to do this full-time, but you can also choose to babysit for just a few hours each week. Your children will enjoy having extra companions to play with, and you can earn some extra cash by playing games, making snacks and ensuring that everyone gets a good nap.

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How Can I Keep My Business In A State Of Constant Growth?

Although most business owners want their companies to remain in a state of perpetual growth, there are typically at least a few periods in which sales and expansion come to a frustrating plateau. During these times, it’s important for you to utilize growth strategies to ensure that your company keeps moving forward. Here are three expansion techniques that can help make it happen:

1. Optimize Your Broadband Products And Services

These days, many if not most businesses make at least some use of the Internet. As such, it’s very important that your internet access is faster than the traditional dial-up access. To make it happen, you should find a company that can provide you with excellent broadband products like the hybrid combiner. It is very important that you have the right broadband that fits your needs, but it is also very easy to get a cheaper broadband company. You could check out someone like Usave who can help you compare broadband providers. To ensure that you find the right company, make sure that the team of professionals you select have extensive industry experience. Werlatone is a broadband company that has been in operation since 1965. My friend in Australia uses clickbroadband.com.au and she says they’re great, so if you’re from that area, check them out!

2. Enhance Your Internet Presence

In addition to optimizing your broadband products and services, make sure that you get in the habit of enhancing your Internet presence. This strategy is powerful because it will enable you to demonstrate the value and power of your brand to Internet audiences across the globe. The best way to attain an optimized Internet presence is through the use of professional digital services. Industry experts are skilled in utilizing customized, cutting edge marketing services to help you connect with and then convert members of your target audience. Some of the digital services industry professionals can offer you include web design and development, search engine optimization (look at these Addiction Treatment SEO Strategies for more information on SEO and it’s applications), online reputation management, social media optimization, and responsive web design.

Other ways of enhancing your internet presence include the use of social media. If you can gather a large enough following then word will spread about your products and services. There are many sites that offer to provide you with more followers such as the well-known Social Meep, however a lot of these do so through bots and spam accounts. Have a look here https://growthoid.com/socialmeep-alternative/ for an alternative that offers to grow your followers organically.

3. Develop A Strategic Plan

Planning is oftentimes the key to success in life, and this principle holds true for the world of business. As such, it’s important for you to take time to develop a strategic plan that outlines your business mission, goals, and how you will accomplish your central objectives. There are many components that your strategic plan could include, and which elements you incorporate should be contingent upon your distinct needs. For example, some businesses find it helpful to include a section where they list their SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.)

If you’re serious about ensuring that your business overcomes plateaus and keeps a trend of constant growth, now is the time to make it happen. Utilize the growth principles and procedures outlined above to keep your business in a state of constant expansion.

Teaching more than ABCs at ABC360

In my previous post, I have shared information about the application process in three different online English schools.  I’ve also mentioned that I opted to work for ABC360 because they offered me the highest hourly rate.  I have been working for them on a part-time basis for five months now and am quite satisfied with it.

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Flexible and Convenient Work Hours

My usual working hours are from 8:00 to 12:00 in the evening.  My kids sleep at around 7 pm so this gives me ample time to review the materials and prepare my work area.  Sometimes, I would also open classes from 12:00nn to 2:00pm when the kids are in school.  The flexible working hours make it very convenient for a mom like me whose schedule revolves around the kids’ schedules.

In ABC360, we plot our own schedules a week in advance so I can opt to just open a couple of hours a day when I expect a busy week. I can also opt not to open classes on certain days such as birthdays, holidays and school breaks.

Stress-Free Work

Preparing for my classes is stress-free as I only need to turn on my computer, log-in to my accounts, set my webcam, and make myself presentable.  Sometimes, I would put on a little makeup but most of the time I just put on a bit of powder and a dab of tinted lip balm.

During my first month, I would prepare my own guide so I could properly conduct classes without missing any of the slides or going beyond the set duration.  But once I got the hang of it, I would just go over the teacher’s copy of the materials before I start my shift. The teacher’s copy has a script you could follow so there really shouldn’t be any problem conducting classes.

A class lasts 17 minutes but most students book two consecutive classes for a total of 34 minutes.  At first, it was a challenge to budget the given time but as I got more familiar with the lessons and the students, it became easier to adjust the pace according to their levels.

After each class, we are required to make a memo for each class.  We are to provide words and phrases that the students need to review after class and some feedback if there are any.  Accomplishing the memo should take only about 3 minutes for one class.  However, I usually take much longer than that.  Sometimes, I provide additional exercises for the students.  So, I finish all my memos at the end of my shift or the following morning.

Making Friends

In the five months that I have worked for ABC360, some of my students have become more like friends.  Most of my students now have been with me since I started and I talk to them on a daily basis. We have gotten to know each other more.  Our lessons are often interspersed with news about their work, their children, or their family.  They share stories about their vacations and accomplishments in school or at work.  One student even asks me for advice about her love life and her lack of fulfillment at work.

These conversations are definitely what I look forward to the most. Aside from helping them be more proficient in English, I also get to be a dear friend to them.

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So, What’s the Pay?

I know you’re all itching to know how much the pay is!  As I mentioned in my previous post, it really doesn’t pay much but it is enough to cover basic living expenses. Besides, work is stress-free that it doesn’t seem like work at all.  For me, at least, it’s like having a hobby that earns you income.  Those who can work 4hrs/day, 5 days/week, can earn around 10K.

Online teaching has become my respite from my daily routine at home.  Before becoming an ABC360 teacher, my evenings were just usually spent watching teleseryes or writing blog posts.  Now, I get to do something more fulfilling and earn money at the same time.

ABC360 has made it possible for a simple housewife like me to have a fulfilling career as a teacher while taking care of my two kids at home.  Did I mention that we don’t have any house help and are homeschooling this school year?  Yes, that’s true! And yes, it is possible to earn your own income even if you are just a stay-at-home mom.

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